Watson v. City of Fort Collins

The defendant, city of Fort Collins, was originally a municipal corporation, formed under our general municipal corporation statute. It is now what is commonly known in this state as a home rule city. It operates under a special charter, by the choice of its inhabitants, who elected to function as a municipality under the twentieth amendtnent to the state Constitution, 'which,' among other things, confers upon municipalities 'that áre organized thereunder, and which have adopted such a charter, every power possessed by our general assembly in granting charters generally. Newton v. Fort…